Shenshek
| Shenshek | |
|---|---|
![Scarab seal of Shenshek. Egyptian Museum (TD-6160[50])](/translate/en.wikipedia.org?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AScarab_Shenshek_by_Khruner.png&t=hv) Scarab seal of Shenshek. Egyptian Museum (TD-6160[50]) | |
| Pharaoh | |
| Reign | unknown duration |
| Predecessor | unknown |
| Successor | unknown |
| Dynasty | uncertain, possibly14th Dynasty |
Shenshekwas a ruler of some part ofEgyptduring theSecond Intermediate Period,possibly during the 17th century BC, and likely belonging to the14th Dynasty.[2][3]As such he would have ruled fromAvarisover the easternNile Deltaand possibly over the western Delta as well. His chronological position and identity are unclear.
Attestation
[edit]Shenshek is known from a singlescarabdiscovered in Avaris, modernTell el-Dab'a,by the EgyptologistManfred Bietak.The scarab is now in theEgyptian Museum,catalog number TD-6160[50].[4][5]
Identity
[edit]The primary historical source for the identification and chronological position of the rulers of the 14th Dynasty is theTurin canon,a king list compiled during theRamesside period. The identification of Shenshek with one of the names on the list is difficult because the Turin canon only records the kings'prenomenwhile Shenshek is anomen.Although the Egyptologists Darrell Baker andKim Ryholtdeem it likely that Shenshek is indeed recorded on the list, its identification will remain conjectural until an artefact bearing both Shenshek's nomen and prenomen is found.
After his discovery of the seal, Bietak proposed that Shenshek is a variant of the name of kingMaaibre Sheshi,whose chronological position is somewhat unclear but who could also belong to the 14th Dynasty.[3]This hypothesis is rejected by Baker and Ryholt.[3]Based on aseriationof the scarab-seals of the Second Intermediate Period, Ryholt proposed that Shenshek reigned afterNehesyand beforeYaqub-Har.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Thomas Schneider:Ausländer in Ägypten während des Mittleren Reiches und der Hyksoszeit,Vol. 1:Die ausländischen Konige,ÄAT 42, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998,ISBN978-3447040495,see p. 140–141
- ^abK.S.B. Ryholt:The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC,Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997,excerpts available online here.
- ^abcDarrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International,ISBN978-1-905299-37-9,2008, p. 424
- ^Manfred Bietak:Egypt and Canaan during the Middle Bronze Age,BASOR 281 (1991), p.52 & fig 18,available online
- ^I. Hein (editor):Pharaonen und fremde Dynastien im Dunkel,Museen der Stadt Wien, 1994, p. 145